Quotes About Adaptation

What the four seasons of the year mean to the European, the one season of monsoon means to the Indian.

Yes. Japan will overrun us," the scholar said. "But we will turn them into Chinese. Give us five hundred years. You wait.

She was re-creating herself, shedding one skin for another.

They had left the mountains and entered the world, and he became a predator. She had survived by playing dead.

I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.

Either things grow and change or they die.

In England, people had been loudly proclaiming the death of the guitar and the birth of the synthesizer, but Sonic Youth and other American guitar bands started to create a buzz.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

Somewhere during Darwin's long journey, however, his ideas about the world shifted and he began peering at it freshly, from a different point of view. That shift ultimately led him to

we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.

Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

Broken bones take a long time to heal. Why shouldn't brains?

crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed.

The Swiss Family Robinson.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

The newspaper fits the readers program while the listener must fit the broadcasters program.

Le temps est fait pour avancer. Ne t'accommode pas d'une vie où il reste figé.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left for other jobs, towns, got deported, returned home, changed names. Sometimes someone came popping around a corner again, or on the subway then they vanished again. Addresses, phone numbers did not hold. The emptiness Biju felt returned to him over and over, until eventually he made sure not to let friendships sink deep anymore.